The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.

Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!